PATHS Partners

PATHS is a collaborative of movement building organizations organizing for a city actively committed to a “just transition” to a liberatory and life sustaining economy. We acknowledge historical and contemporary structural violence in the form of anti-Black racism, heteropatriarchy, economic injustice, community disinvestment, and other forms of oppression. We value the transformative power of community-led decision-making and seek social, economic, and racial justice through the support and engagement of the people most impacted in community organizing and policy advocacy work. PATHS centers and prioritizes the safety, wellness, and liberation of Black women, youth, transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC), formerly incarcerated, low-income and poor folks, among others.

Meet Our Partners

  • Black Lives Matter Chicago

    blacklivesmatterchicago.com

    Black Lives Matter Chicago fights for the liberation of all Black people from the oppression of racial capitalism and particularly to abolish capitalism's brutal enforcers the police.

  • Equity and Transformation

    eatchicago.org

    EAT was founded in 2018 by formerly incarcerated people from Chicago with lived experience in the informal economy. EAT applies a structured organizing to affect social change and establish community-led alternatives to harmful state interventions. EAT aims to radically reimagine social contract in the US by developing leaders and communities who question the status quo.

  • Intersections for Complex Healing PLLC

    https://i-cch.com/

    Intersections Center for Complex Healing PLLC is a psychotherapy practice which focuses on the intersections of identity, trauma and mental wellness. We primarily work with Black Queer Adults and Relationships.

  • Kola Nut Collaborative

    kolanutcollab.org

    The Kola Nut Collaborative is Chicago’s only time-based service, labor, and skills exchange (otherwise known as a timebank) providing an open collaborative platform for community organizing, network weaving, asset mapping, and mutual aid. Through timebanking, we hope to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods throughout the city.

  • The #LetUsBreathe Collective

    letusbreathecollective.com

    The #LetUsBreathe Collective is an alliance of artists and activists organizing through a creative lens to imagine a world without prisons and police. We organize artists, educators, healers, and organizers to love and transform themselves, their families, their communities, and their cities through radical imagination and healing.

  • Resist. Reimagine. Rebuild.

    Resist. Reimagine. Rebuild. (R3) is a Chicago-based coalition of more than 20 progressive grassroots Black, Latinx, Indigenous and queer-led organizations, activists and academics working collectively across multiple issue areas such as abolition, economic justice, anti-militarism, and immigrant rights, and community power. We formed in November 2016 on the South Side of Chicago. R3 works to stitch together movement strands into a stronger tapestry and united front of politically aligned progressive organizations in Chicago.

  • Upside Down Consulting, LLC

    upside-down.co

    At UDC, we develop and support cooperatives that center people of color, especially those who have been most harmed by capitalism and the many systems of oppression it is designed to uphold. On a systems level, we engage in policy work and ecosystem development to build solidarity economy movement infrastructure.